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† steel-bow1, ˈsteel bow Obs.
[bow n.1]
1. ? A stirrup.
c1205Lay. 23899 Arður stop a stel boȝe And leop an his blancke. a1400–50Wars Alex. 778 Ilk a hathill to hors hiȝis him be-lyue, Stridis into stele-bowe, stertis apon loft.
2. A bow made of steel; a cross-bow.
[1535Coverdale Job xx. 23 Yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. ii. (Arb.) 112 Iron bowes, and style bowes, haue bene of longe tyme, and also nowe are vsed among the Turkes.] 1607Dekker & Webster Sir T. Wyat E 1 b, Norf. Yonder the Traitor marcheth with a steele-bowe Bent on his Souereigne, and his kingdomes peace. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 305 Steel Bows, and Shafts their arms Of equal dread in flight, or in pursuit.
3. A part of a lathe. Obs.
1680Moxon Mech. Exerc. xiv. 236 There is a strong Steel Bow..fastned about its middle part to the further side of the Puppet... And to the ends of this Steel Bow is fastned a strong String of Gut.
Hence † ˈsteelbowman, a crossbowman.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 484/1 Balistarij,..the crossebow or steelebowmen. |